A Greater Adoption

I was thinking about how God's adoption of his children compares to human adoption.  There are parallels for sure, but I was struck by one significant difference in particular.  A human adoption can potentially be an alternative to abortion.  As such, it serves to prevent death by extending life to the living.  Divine adoption, on the other hand, does the exact opposite: it gives life to the dead.  Ephesians 2:1 says that, before Christ, we were "dead in our trespasses and sins."  But when God adopted us, we were "made alive together in Christ (v. 5).  It is in awe of my own miraculous adoption that I seek to adopt my own child.